I WAS offended. Luckily for them, I do not I have the right NOT to be offended, even when directly insulted, and would not threaten legal action or violence.

Sadly, theists rarely extend the same latitude.

I did consider contacting the relevent authrity and asking for an advert stating “Christians are idiots” to be placed alongside it. I have a feeling it wouldn’t have gone down too well. Perhaps it would be different if I used bible-babble type speech?

Now I am thoroughly confused. Putting your and David’s quote together, the wannabe logician in me deduces that God has doomed herself to hellfire, and that putting David’s quote together with what Griff said, it seems any Christians calling anybody an atheist automatically become doomed for hellfire?

I’ve long since decided that, given a choice between Adobe’s Helvetica Neue and another typeface that could be mistraken for Helvetica without careful examination, you better have a damned good reason for not going with the original. It just works so phenomenally well, and nearly all the latecomers introduce problems just so they can distinguish themselves from the reigning champ.

given a choice between Adobe’s Helvetica Neue and another typeface that could be mistraken for Helvetica without careful examination, you better have a damned good reason for not going with the original

FFRF.org (Freedom From Religion Foundation) is a great (large) group of non-believers/freethinkers which pursues many indiscretions by NON-thinkers using public ads for fairytales (religion) and have won numerous lawsuits against nitwits who think bleating “prayers” in public schools, et al, is just so fine ‘n dandy. We need more watchdogs like FFRF.org!!

Personally, living in northeastern Pennsylvania, I can’t blame COLT for insisting on the threat of legal action. The region is rich with pre-V2 Catholics who live to play victim. Better they attack the law than my bus company.

I was just being cynical. COLT does the right thing and accepts the ad, it catches hell. COLT does the wrong thing and blocks the ad, then waits for legal action, it gets to say, Hey, we would love to pander to you all, but we have no choice.

Which reaction was anticipated by NEPA Freethought, that being the genius of their action.

lol. Atheists scare religious people because we’re party poopers of their fantasies. Just look at the interaction between a homeopathist and say a biochemist, physical chemist, etc. when they are together in the same room and are discussing science. lolz.

Homeopathist know their “craft” is complete bullshit but they gotta do it to scam ppl and make a living. That’s why they’re so accepting of others who are willing or are on board with homeopathy because the more they convince ppl to do it the better it is for them. It’s the exact same thing with religion. The more they can get to believe and not question it the better off they are. And Atheists by definition without even saying a word go completely against this mentality. lolz. They’re scared of the very word.

“[Atheism is] dangerous to the progression of this state. And it’s dangerous for our children to even know that your philosophy exists!” Quote from Il. State legislator Monique Davis, April 2008, in an open legislative session.

This whole ‘battle’ is an exact but metaphorical parallel to the manner with which the various members of the Mafia or Cosa Nostra deal with a phalanx of honest cops.
An almost exact simile, if one allows ‘firearms’ to interchange with ‘outright lies and sheer fraud’ as a first approximation as to ammunition.